Hacker Sentenced to 3 Years for iPad Data Exploit

A computer hacker was sentenced to three years and five months in prison Monday after he was convicted last year in a plot to gather email addresses of 120,000 users of Apple Inc.'s iPad.

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey alleged that Andrew Auernheimer, 27 years old, was part of a group of computer hackers who exploited a flaw in AT&T Inc.'s website in 2010. The flaw made it possible for iPad users' emails to be revealed. The...